I Usually Don’t Pray …
(… but I’ll make an exception in this case.)

by poputonian

Men Offer Twist To Simpson Case
Pair’s legal maneuver could force ex-football star to pay for slayings

On Tuesday, attorney Jonathan Polak filed a petition in California Superior Court in an attempt to make Simpson cough up $33.5 million for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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So how are Polak and colleague Karl Manders going to collect?

They want Simpson to sign over his “right of publicity” to Fred Goldman.

The petition, believed to be the first of its kind, would place Goldman in charge of any attempts to make money off of Simpson’s name, image, voice or likeness. For example, any profit Simpson made from signing autographs would go to Goldman.
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Sound crazy?
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“You could do it,” agreed Alan Ross, an intellectual property attorney at Bricker & Eckler LLP cq in Cleveland. “It’s a little scary to think about doing it. It’s a different kind of concept.”

By law, a person’s right of publicity is considered an intangible property. That’s opposed to a tangible property, such as a car or a house.

Under California law, intangible property and tangible property are one in the same.

Oh please, Dear God, please let Fred Goldman’s attorneys prevail in this case.